Anchovies dying in SoCal

Don't like the sound (or smell) of this.

We need chovies!, everything else in the ocean does as well. Let's hope this is a freak incident and not something even more detrimental to our fishing.


Enough anchovies to top much of the world’s pizza and Caesar salads have floated lifelessly to the surface in Redondo Beach, California's King Harbor, according to a local newspaper.

Officials say millions of the pungent, oily fish are covering the sea bottom in the harbor. They began rising to the surface Tuesday morning, the Daily Breeze in Torrance, outside Los Angeles, reported.

“We need to get rid of them,” Sgt. Phil Keenan of the Redondo Beach Police Department told the paper. “This is going to create a terrible pollution and public health issue if we don't.”

Fire, police and public works officials have yet to cite a definite cause, but Keenan said the fish appear to have died from lack of oxygen.

There were no red tides (oxygen-depleting algae blooms) or other obvious phenomena that could have caused the mass deaths, the paper reported.

“Yesterday, everything looked absolutely normal,” Walter Waite, who lives at the harbor, told the newspaper. “This morning when I got up, there were millions and millions of them floating everywhere.”

The temperature in Southern California is expected to climb into the 70s Tuesday, exacerbating the urgency of removing the scads of 6-inch fish scattered throughout the harbor.


Can't wait to get out there again.

Stoggie

Just in case you want to see it/read it: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/redondo-beach-authorities-report-large-fish-kill-at-king-harbor.html

Boy oh boy is that gonna stink!!! 

why not scoop them all up and freeze for bait, or turn into "stink bait" or use as chum in the summer.....just need a freezer/warehouse.....

lol

Pet food.

Organic fertilizer...leastways that's what they did with them when this happened in Santa Cruz.
Farmers from Watsonville came & picked up truckloads of dead anchovies.